50 Powerful Happiness Quotes
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes” – Lauren Oliver
Let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” – Daphne Du Maurier
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’” – Marianne Williamson
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within” – Helen Keller
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.” – Alex Flinn
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – J.M. Barrie
“I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.” – Tana French
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus
“My only regrets are the moments when I doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.” – Dan Howell
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.” – Wayne Dyer
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” – Mother Teresa
“You can’t buy happiness” – Kurt Cobain
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” – Boethius
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” – Peter Deunov
“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.” – John Chrysostom
“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.” – Orson Scott Card
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.” – Honoré de Balzac
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” – Desiderius Erasmus
“Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.” – Kiera Cass
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker